OpenAI's rumored 'Aeon' is a persistent reasoning mode that runs until the task is done
imjustnewatai · x · 2026-09-22
An X user surfaced clues suggesting Aeon is a new reasoning mode inside OpenAI called "persistent" — it would keep working until the task is fully completed, rather than being bounded by a fixed reasoning budget like current reasoning models. Unconfirmed rumor; OpenAI has not commented.
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